Although the original anatomical explanation of hysteria, the so-called wandering womb, was by this point abandoned, the diagnoses remained associated with (gender stereotypes of) females and female sexuality in the minds of physicians. (wikipedia.org)

One can draw a straight line from Classical Greek ideas that the uterus wandered about the body causing all sorts of ailments to the popular diagnosis of "hysteria" for almost any psychological and many somatic complaints in 19th century Europe and America. (medicalxpress.com)

The standard cure for this "hysterical suffocation" was scent therapy, in which good smells were placed under a woman's genitals and bad odors at the nose, while sneezing could be also induced to drive the uterus back to its correct place. (wikipedia.org)

Rachel Maines hypothesized that doctors from the classical era up until the early 20th century commonly treated hysteria by masturbating female patients to orgasm (termed "hysterical paroxysm"), and that the inconvenience of this may have driven the early development of and the market for the vibrator. (wikipedia.org)

Jorden (1603) called the disorder manifested in Jackson (and in the majority of supposed witches) by two terms: hysterical, and strangulatus uteri, or "suffocation of the mother" (mother here being an old-fashioned term for the uterus), since a choking in the throat was a common accompaniment. (wikipedia.org)

In later works, Freud would reject Charcot's distinction between the two types of hysteria, arguing that trauma is the cause of hysteria in both men and women, though he broadened the definition of trauma to include repressed memories of sexual experiences, and believed that recalling traumatic memories could cure hysteria. (wikipedia.org)

The history of hysteria has seen the approach of Ilza Veith, in which there is one disorder constant across time, and in which Freud is the hero with history becoming a steady progress towards his insights, replaced in the 1990s by scholarship based on closer knowledge of the original source texts. (wikipedia.org)

Prominent physicians of this era, including neurologist Sigmund Freud, argued that women were biologically suited to homemaking and housework, as they did not have enough blood to power both the brain and the uterus. (wikipedia.org)

Plato talks of the uterus as a separate being inside women, while Aretaeus described it as "an animal within an animal" (less emotively, "a living thing inside a living thing"), which causes symptoms by wandering around a woman's body putting pressure on other organs. (wikipedia.org)

Hysteria was joined in 1866 by a diagnosis for a very similar set of symptoms: railway spine, a nervous disorder caused by witnessing the accidents that the dangerous railways of the time generated in large numbers. (wikipedia.org)

Herbert Page, by contrast, argued for the hysteria label, finding what Erichsen called railway spine a functional disorder that was too similar to hysteria to warrant a separate diagnosis. (wikipedia.org)

Nonne was originally skeptical, but ultimately became a proponent of the male hysteria diagnosis when dealing with the neurotics produced by the First World War. (wikipedia.org)

They claim that hysteria is another such disease: we understand only its "mental symptoms," but in time will discover its physicochemical cause (Szasz 1961, pp. 91-93). (encyclopedia.com)

A subsequent German study came up with a 1:10 ratio, Georges Gilles de la Tourette then published a 1:2 or 1:3 estimate, and finally Charcot and his student Pierre Marie did a study of 704 cases of patients displaying symptoms of hysteria, finding that 525 of them were males. (wikipedia.org)

This suggests an entirely physical cause for the symptoms but, by linking them to the uterus, suggests that the disorder can only be found in women. (wikipedia.org)

These symptoms mimic symptoms of other more definable diseases and create a case for arguing against the validity of hysteria as an actual disease, and it is often implied that it is an umbrella term, used to describe an indefinable illness. (wikipedia.org)

Generally, modern medical professionals have abandoned using the term "hysteria" to denote a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories, such as somatization disorder. (wikipedia.org)

I keep wondering if the men of that time really thought that thinking too hard might harm a woman's uterus (because uteruses were the only thing they were good for, apparently) or did they know the truth all along but used it as an excuse to exclude women? (thesocietypages.org)

This circumstance simply enough speaks - in the ancient time was considered that the reason of this frustration in uterus diseases as there was it only at escort in Ukraine women. (kiev-golden-escorts.com)

The notion that hysteria was a condition limited to women was thus firmly established and was not seriously challenged until the latter half of the nineteenth century by Charcot (Zilboorg 1941). (encyclopedia.com)

Male "traumatic hysteria", as defined by Charcot, was a distinct disease from female hysteria in that it was linked to traumatic shock rather than sexuality or emotional distress, so the gendered stereotyping was still at work in Charcot's thinking. (wikipedia.org)

Aretaeus offered clinical descriptions of a number of diseases among which he gave classic accounts of asthma, epilepsy, pneumonia, tetanus, uterus cancer and different kinds of insanity. (wikipedia.org)

In contemporary usage, the name hysteria is given to a form of mental illness characterized by the exhibition of bodily signs such as paralysis or spasmodic movements and by complaints about the body, such as anesthesia or pain. (encyclopedia.com)

In theory, this was accomplished by defining hysteria as the unconscious imitation of illness, and malingering as the conscious imitation of it. (encyclopedia.com)

Today, female hysteria is no longer a recognized illness, but different manifestations of hysteria are recognized in other conditions such as schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, conversion disorder, and anxiety attacks. (wikipedia.org)

During the first ten centuries of Christianity, with medical thought stagnating under the authoritarian influence of Galenic concepts, most cases of hysteria were probably mistaken for various bodily diseases. (encyclopedia.com)

He differentiated nervous diseases and mental disorders and described hysteria, headaches, mania and melancholia. (wikipedia.org)

By this point, the incidence of "classical" hysteria in males was accepted by Freud's audience, but Charcot's traumatic variant was still controversial and evoked discussion among the present medical doctors. (wikipedia.org)

Although Maines's theory that hysteria was treated by masturbating female patients to orgasm is widely repeated in the literature on female anatomy and sexuality, some historians dispute Maines's claims about the prevalence of this treatment for hysteria and about its relevance to the invention of the vibrator, describing them as a distortion of the evidence or that it was only relevant to an extremely narrow group. (wikipedia.org)

The situation gradually began to change: in 1859, Paul Briquet remarked that "we saw little hysteria in men because we did not want to see it", and between 1875 and 1902, some three hundred medical articles were devoted to the topic of male hysteria, as well as dozens of dissertations. (wikipedia.org)

Now, from height of modern scientific knowledge, we understand that the uterus has to 'hysteria' the most mediocre relation, but here with a floor, more precisely, with escort in Ukraine female aspiration to subordination, with escort in Ukraine female desire to be given to man's passion here communication the most direct. (kiev-golden-escorts.com)

The group of phenomena we now call hysteria and regard as a type of mental disease has been known since antiquity. (encyclopedia.com)

During the Middle Ages, as the attitude toward sickness changed from naturalistic to demonotheologic, many cases of hysteria, and undoubtedly of organic disease too, were interpreted as manifestations of witchcraft. (encyclopedia.com)

With the flowering of empiricism and science during the Renaissance, hysteria was again rediscovered as a disease. (encyclopedia.com)

Pacyga's response to the allegations against Lynch included his concerns about the 'hysteria' caused by the Me Too movement, a wish that Lynch's accusers were publicly named, and a tricky analogy involving Japanese internment camps. (minnpost.com)